The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2)

by Alka Joshi

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.

To me, henna is a way for a woman to find a piece of herself she might have mislaid.

There’s more power in keeping a secret than in betraying it.”

our clients would be loyal to us if we showed loyalty to them.

“Giving jewels to a donkey is as useless as—” “—giving a eunuch to a woman,”

The old maharani grins, and a hundred wrinkles form at the corners of her lipsticked mouth as her hollowed cheeks lift, making her almost beautiful.

I love this line!